Shower doors or Shower curtains?

[MM27]

I have a shower curtain and can say that I have never had a problem with it sticking to me

 

[Feralpeg]

I have shower doors. The one in my bathroom does not work on a track. It swings out like a regular door. The one in DD's bathroom is on a track, but I have no problem keeping it clean. I spray it with a spray cleaner once a week and it stays sparkling.

I hate shower curtains. I don't like how the get against me. I don't like the way water gets on the floor. They tend to mildew.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

I have shower door and I rent so im stuck with them but I swear I need to hire a crew to clean them out.

 

[Diznygrl]

Curtains! We had those stupid sliding doors in the master bath, and I hated how gross and nasty they could get, especially the track. When we put a shower in the second bathroom I got a mildew resistant curtain, and it's great. I take a shower in there every day and I don't even have to clean the curtain. Sometimes I do just because I feel like I should, but I really don't have to. When the master bath was recently done, out went the doors and up went a curtain. I've never had a problem with it blowing and sticking on me. Maybe you guys are using curtains that are too flimsy. Get one of those thicker, mildew resistant ones.

 

[bananda]

we have a sliding door. but it broke and now we can't close it or we get trapped.

 

[Rora]

We have a curtain and I HATE it. I want a shower door so badly!

 

[Feralpeg]

It amazes me that so many say they had trouble keeping their shower doors and track clean. I spray mine with KaBoom once a week and I have no mold, mildew, soap scum, or anything else in mine. Maybe, I'm just lucky.

 

[Silent1CB]

Pretty shower curtain and I regularly change & throw out the liners with cheap replacements. Easier than cleaning or washing them.

 

[piglet50]

curtains on a curved rod. the rod gives extra space and works great. i use inexpensive vinyl liners that i wash with the towels each week. keeps them clean and me happy.

 

[englishteacha]

Not to hijack, but we had a shower door that leaked. We took the door off the track and put up a curtain. However, my DH was afraid that if we took the track itself off the fiberglass tub it would damage the fiberglass. So I have a curtain AND a track that is just annoying. For those of you who took the door off, how did you take the track off without damaging the tub?

 

[Hidden_Mickey]

Well, we used to have a curtain but I hated when it would get mildewy... YUCK. Yes, they are cheap to buy, but still.

Then we moved to a place with ancient sliding shower doors and I hated it. I swear they were invented by a man who never considered how we were supposed to clean the track or the part of the doors that overlaps, even when they are closed. At one point I was using liquid soap with moisturizer, and I think it stuck to the doors and tiles like glue. It was dirty and disgusting and I couldn't get it clean no matter what I did. When we moved out they remodeled the bathroom. It needed an upgrade anyway but the tub/shower was really gross.

Last year we moved to a house and remodeled the bathroom, which was very small. We decided to put a nice big shower in, no tub, with a door that swings out. It is MUCH easier to clean. The door jamb is smooth, not grooved, and there are no grooves in the shower stall. I wipe it down every day with a towel after we all shower. I have had to clean the corners a few times where I can't reach with the towel, and the floor of the stall, but the walls and door have stayed pristine. And I've switched to Lever 2000, so no goo stays on the walls!

 

[Feralpeg]

Not to hijack, but we had a shower door that leaked. We took the door off the track and put up a curtain. However, my DH was afraid that if we took the track itself off the fiberglass tub it would damage the fiberglass. So I have a curtain AND a track that is just annoying. For those of you who took the door off, how did you take the track off without damaging the tub?

Go to your local hardware store and ask for a solvent that will release the glue without damaging the fiberglass. If they don't know, call a company that makes fiberglass tubs and ask them.

 

[GJM]

Always wanted shower doors and hated them - I now have shower curtains, the liners are so cheap that if they get bad I just buy another one, but I have washed them.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Two of our bathrooms have curtains and one has a door (master bath). I like the door because I absolutely hate it when a shower curtain sticks to my wet body.

However, this door is old and I would like a newer one. For washing the dogs (youngest child is 7, so we don't have to do that any longer), we use the tub with the shower curtain (the other bathroom is just a shower, no tub).

Shower curtains are easier to keep clean, but I just like the openess and ease of the doors for when I'm taking a shower.

 

[Art 1]

Doors, shower curtains are, well, gross.

 

[mom2boys]

We were "forced" to trade our doors for a curtin recently. (The roller on the door busted & the bathroom is slated for a total remodel in 2010.) We happened to have a spare tension rod laying around the basement so we bought a curtin & are using that. The only problem is my towel rods were on the shower door so now every towel goes immediately into the hamper after one use.

 

[lvanleer]

Grew up with shower doors....then the apartment and two townhomes we lived in we had to get curtains.....now we live in my childhood home with shower doors again which I much prefer.....keeps the water in.

 

[clovergirl5]

Doors, shower curtains are, well, gross.

So you use nothing to keep the water from getting on the floor? Or do you just take a bath?

 

[mrsheppo]

I have had shower doors in most of the places I have lived and I HATE them. This new house has shower curtains which I greatly prefer. I have a Mickey curtain in the master bath and DD has Princess in her bath. So much easier to keep clean.

 

[smidgy]

I've cleaned MANY houses. shower doors get gross. too hard to keep clean. curtains can be replaced cheaply